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Grove Music Online
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Nicole WILD: 'Fontaine, Pierre-François-Léonard', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 October 2001), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Fontaine, Pierre-François-Léonard
(b Pontoise, 20 Sept 1762; d Paris, 10 Oct 1853). French architect and stage designer. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with Antoine-François Peyre, in whose studio he met Charles Percier […]. He won a second place in the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1785, and was at the Académie de France in Rome, 1786–92. He joined Percier, who had been asked to take over from Pierre-Adrien Pâris as designer at the Paris Opéra, in December 1792, and they were in partnership there until their resignation in 1796. […] Under the painter Jacques-Louis David, they did work for the revolutionary fêtes (for example, Porta’s Réunion du 10 août). They also worked for the Théâtre Français, the Vaudeville, Opera Buffa and the Opéra-Comique (for whom they designed Grétry’s Elisca, 1799, in collaboration with Jean-Thomas Thibault).
In January 1801 Fontaine and Percier were appointed government architects. […] They built a theatre at La Malmaison in 1802 (200 seats) and another at St Cloud in 1803. In 1825 Fontaine built a scenery storehouse for the Opéra in the rue Richer, and during Louis-Philippe’s reign he restored the hall of the Comédie-Française. […]"
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